Improvement in water-gates



P. S. BASNETT.

Water-Gate.

No. 222,809. Patented Dec; 23, I879.

. (1' I y 9 "I mum- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP S. BASNETT, OF BASNETTSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA;

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,809, dated December 23, 1879; application filed August 13, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP S. BASNETT, of Basnettsville, in the county of Marion and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Gates and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which-- Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a perspective rear view, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on line a w in Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention has relation to flood-gates; and I it consists in the detailed construction and arrangement of hinged gates suspended vertically from a series of connecting-rods, forming one continuous long-linked chain, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, A denotes the bed of the stream or watercourse, upon each bank of which, a a, is erected a substantially braced post or upright, B B.

The posts B B may be dispensed with if two trees can be found of sufficient size growing near the waters edge opposite to each other, which will answer the same purpose.

The posts B B are bored through near the top and a rod, (3, from ten to fifteen feet in length, screw-threaded at one end, is inserted with its screw-threaded end through the hole, and provided with a nut, c.

In the present illustration of my invention I have shown only two connecting-rods, united by their eyes dd,- but it is obvious that the number of rods and the length of the longlinked chain formed by them depend upon the width of the stream across which the gates are to be placed, there being one rod for each gate.

The gates consist each of three parallel vertical uprights, D D D, from twelve to twenty feet in length, upon the lower ends of which are bolted the planks forming the gate proper, E.

The uprights or suspension-bars D project a little below the gate, so as to impinge upon stone piers F, built up in the bed of the stream, and are notched or slotted on one side, as shown in Fig. 2, to form hooks, by means of which the gate may be suspended upon its link or rod 0 at different elevations, accordin g to whether the upper or lower set of hooks is used, which enables the gates tobe raised and adjusted upon the suspension-chain above low-water mark, as well as keeping them entirely out of the water in winter, and thus prevent their being frozen into the ice.

The several gates are hooked upon their connecting-rods with the hooks or slots pointing up stream, and are planked to form the gates on the same (hooked) side of the suspension-bars, so as to present a smooth and flat surface to the driftwood, and allow this to pass' under the gates over thepiers F.

In the case of water-courses or rivers having considerable fall, or where, from other causes, the stream is very rapid, and which are apt to rise rapidly and suddenly above low-water mark, requiring the suspension-bars to be made very long, I prefer to construct said bars as represented at G in Fig. 2 of the drawings-that is, of wood and iron combined.

The wooden upright D is broken off a short distance above the gate, and is perforated laterally to receive the screw-threaded bent arm of an iron suspension-rod, G, made with a hook, g, at its upper end, which rides upon the horizontal rod 0.

The lower bent arm of rod G is prevented from slipping out of its perforation in the upright D by a nut, h,- and to admit of the elevation or vertical adjustment of the gate upon the chain formed by rods 0, upright D is provided with a series of perforations, i t i, into any one of which the bent arm of rod G may be inserted, and secured in place by its nut h.

Whenever the suspension-chain 0 becomes slack it can readily be made taut by tightening the nuts 0 upon each end down upon the osts. p Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States-- i In a flood-gate for rivers or water-courses, a series of independent gates composed each of uprights D D D, slotted in their front sides In testimony that I claim the foregoing as to form a series of hooks, one above the other, my own I have hereto affixed my signature in by which the gates may be suspended adjustpresence, of two Witnesses. ably upon a series of suspension-rods, O, linked together to form a continuous long linked PHILIP SHIVELY BASNETT. chain reaching across the stream, and supported upon each bank by posts or similar Witnesses:

supports B B, placed opposite to each other, RICHARD WELLS,

substantially as set forth. A. HUNTER HALL. 

